Friends

Ok, so you know how you had friends and then you realize that maybe you don't, does that make sense at all.  My 10 year High School reunion is coming up in a few months, and it has made me look back, normal I know, but in a lot of ways I am not happy with what it is that I am seeing.  Example, when I got married I invited a friend from high school and work, but when she got married I was not invited.  A whole group of my friends are going on vacation together, which I would not have been able to go to, but it would have been nice to be invited you know.  In high school I was not always the best person to be friends with, I was all over the place, I was watching my dad die before my eyes and learning how to cope with the fact that he would never remember who I was.  Not an easy thing to go thru at any age, but especially hard in the middle of puberty.  I have lost friends, a few have died, and I have gained new ones, but I had a core group of people who I thought would always accept me for who I am, and I am realizing that many of those people are not the people I thought they were.  Last year I apologized for not being a good friend in high school, not something I had to do, but something I wanted to do.  We all tearfully, on my part at least promised to get together, but of course we never have.  and now everyone is getting together, just the crowd, for this upcoming reunion, shocking to me that i was invited to be honest, but hey, most of these people see each other every few weeks anyways, so i do not see what the big deal is, for them, there are a few who live out of state, but the others get together reguarly, i don't know, i did not expect this to hurt so much, to be the outsider with people i have known in some cases 25+ years.  I guess we will see, i may not want to go afterall, and i would probably be making them happy if i didn't.

Family Reading Night Sucks!!!

Hello All,

So, in an attempt to get my oldest son more into reading, which at this point is something he considers almost a punishment, we have instated a Wednesday night family reading night.  Everyone who is in the house comes out and reads together in the living room for 2 - 2 1/2 hours.  This is not a big deal for the family, we would all most likely be reading in our separate rooms during this time anyways.  Both my mother and myself read on average of one book a day, we do this around cooking, cleaning and dealing with the kids.  Reading is part of who we are.  It is a real drag though, my son does nothing but fidget and whine the whole night away, and by the end of the night we are all wound tighter than spool of thread, it is quite annoying.  So if anyone has any ideas as to what we can do to make this more pleasurable for all concerned I would greatly appreciate hearing from you.  Reading is such an integral part of life and we desperately need some way to get my son t enjoy it and want to do it.  So thank you all in advance.

Now onto a completely different  but no less of a downer subject.  I am heading for bankruptcy, this is not something that I want to do, and my husband and I have put it off for far longer than we probably should have.  We are at a point now where it looks like it is going to be the only way out of our not good financial situation, so I also ask that if anyone has advice for us in this area please, please share.  Or if you really want to help, a gift of 25,000 to 50,000 USD would also be most welcome.  We are not 50,000 USD into the whole, but we are close, sad but true, over half of that is my student loans, which I definitely consider worth it, however since I have been unable to find a job, with or without bachelors degree I am starting to resent what was supposed to be a good investment into my future. 

Ok, I guess that is really about all that I have to say on these matters, and any others for that matter.  The kids and the husband and the parental figures are all doing great, as is my extended family and friends.  Money issues just about the whole way around, but other than that we seem to be doing great these almost three weeks into 2011, I hope all of you can say the same.  Laters all, you have my love.

Happy New Years!!

Hello everyone, it has been awhile has it not?  Alot has happened in the last 6+ weeks.  I am officially a college graduate, I now have a Bachelor's from UofA in History.  My instructor was supposed to be there, but he missed it, the ceremony I mean, but that is ok, he was busy I am sure. 

I am watching this years HGTV Dream Home, very pretty it is.  But I liked last years better.  Santa Fe/Albuquerque would have been a wonderful place to live. 

We have been asked to go to court about the money we still owe on the van that had been repoed like 4 years ago.  I do not know what they want from us, we have nothing.  But I guess we will have to wait and see.

Michael still loves his job, which is great, especially since him and school still do not get along, at all.

Well, as it is New Years it is time for some resolutions, I have only two, get rid of the unnecessary bills, going to court is step one of this one, no matter what at the end of the process that should be one large bill taken care of.  And second to lose some weight, I was doing really well before Ray, down to a 16, now I am back up, right around a 24 and that is completely unexceptional, so since I do not have school, and am trying to find a job I am going to be working out and watching what I eat much better, no more needing to eat on the go.

What are your resolutions?  I am curious.

I have not really started reading any new authors, I have just read more of the same ones, different series or stories.  As always anything you want to recommend will be most welcome. 

OK, I guess that is about it, I have been super busy, but not in a interesting sharing type way.  It will probably be a while for my next post, the computer has to go and get fixed so there will not be so much online time, I will have to learn to share better.

<3<3<3 you all